The CD is in Gelderland a list of ten candidates. Because four of them do not give written consent to their application they are removed from the list. Of the six remaining candidates for this, three were still unknown as CD'er and walk the other three a little longer at the party around. It is located one woman on the list. The three known candidates come from Arnhem and the three newcomers from Doetinchem (two) in so.
Gelderland is divided into two constituencies, Nijmegen en Arnhem. For each circuit, one needs at least thirty supporting signatures. In both circuits, the CD without recruitment practices managed to get this number. Also last year, the party came into trouble with the signatures. The current party leader Henny Selhorst was arrested when he bribed a number of heroin addicts with a doodle. Since then he was in jail he could not submit the list of candidates in person and it was faxed by another to the municipality. This faxed list was not accepted and the CD was last year so not participate in the circuit Nijmegen.
When we look at the current list of candidates we see Hendrikus Gerardus Theodorus (Henny) Selhorst (1951) Arnhem itself at the top. Selhorst duikt in 1994 the CD as leader in the elections in Arnhem and is chosen. He's already a criminal record for theft and broadcast piracy. Also do very strong rumors that he is involved in drug trafficking. In his installation, he shall take the oath and then four years not a word to say. A month after his inauguration is Selhorst for the first time during his board membership arrested for drug trafficking. For this he was sentenced to six months in jail, two of which are conditional. In juni 1995 he appealed again convicted of drug trafficking. Ten days after this conviction, he was arrested again due to drug trafficking. This time he comes off less gracious of. He's two months in custody and is to eighteen years in prison and 15.000 guilder penalty condemned. This second arrest for the CD reason to throw him out of the party. Selhorst issues its council seat not because he here 1500 guilders earn per month. However, the CD expulsion appears not very principled because from mid 1997 he may Janmaat down again on behalf of the CD on the Board. According Janmaat can return, because the evidence was very thin and the government also deals in drugs (the parliamentary inquiry Van Traa had just previously revealed that the Dutch police had let smuggle in various investigations large quantities of drugs Netherlands). Despite his troubled past to say the least able in Selhorst 1998 candidate for the municipal elections in Arnhem and for the parliamentary elections on behalf of the CD. To ensure sufficient supporting signatures he recruits the homeless and drug addicts. When he was again arrested in Nijmegen buy autographs in exchange for hard drugs. He was sentenced to five months, two of which are conditional.
Meanwhile Selhorst also performs a series of lawsuits against the city of Arnhem, that from the end 1997 His counsel fee not paid for breach of contract. Selhorst eventually get directly from the State Council and the municipality must still pay compensation.
As the only woman is also Selhorst's wife Everdina Selhorst-of Beersum (1929) the party. However, she is certain to last place. Another familiar name we find in second place.
Tom Gerard Worm (1951) Arnhem after the municipal elections in 1994 the fraction Assistant Selhorst. In september 1997 the Arnhem declaration because he does them for 8.000,- has scammed. Worm ordered many telecommunication devices via the telephone account of the fraction of the room CD. The municipality then had to pay the cost of here. Worm was incidentally already tried a few times before and convicted of fraud and embezzlement. In 1986 he was one and a half years in prison for misappropriating 350.000 guilder Foundation Assistance Foreign Workers Arnhem.
Of the remaining names on the list is only C. About Village from Nijmegen still an old friend. His candidacy cease, because it belongs to the four who do not consent statement handed in. Engineer C.A. About Town (1926) Nijmegen is active early eighties for the Centrumpartij (CP). From 1988 tot 1994 He is a member of the Committee of Recommendation of the far-right Appeal Fight Crime. In the nineties he has contacts with the CD and the Nederlands Blok. This resulted last year in a supporting signature for the CD and now in a failed candidacy.
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Arnhem
When the period began when the handtekingzetters had to appear at the town hall to draw, it soon became clear that Selhorst was again engaged in recruitment practices. Employees of the Arnhem Centre for Addiction and visitors to the addicted society reported that the man was active in the soos to Westervoortsedijk in town. He offered here 25,- to various addicts, in exchange for their support statement. A spokeswoman for the municipality request states that Selhorst several times with such a 'voter’ on the principal appeared. Other addicts were not served by this action. In the society and at the methadone post them complained about the recruitment practices. If we take a look at the list of 33 supporters indeed shows that five of them at the address of the Dispensary for Alcohol and Drugs in this street 'lives'.
Nevertheless, the list is not completely filled with purchased signatures. Some supporters already longer known as CD'er. C.the. Bouwman (1937), A. of Verseveld (1966) en C. Mosselman (1948) stood in 1994 candidate for the party at the Arnhem elections. Three of the current candidates support their own list, with which the number of a certain CD'er in any case is six. Further signs eight people who only known by their signature last year. Because there were also recruited by Selhorst and associates may be difficult given as reference. They can be indeed paid for both times. About fourteen yet unnamed CD steuners is little to say.
Nijmegen
Also in Nijmegen is the CD has been active with the recruitment among addicts and homeless. Employees of the Arnhem Centre for Addiction (GCV) Report even before the deadline for submission is well and truly begun, the CD into the addicts to use is. Two of the nurses are actually enrolled in the Social Center of the Hulsen, official homeless shelter. Nine signatories come from Franckstraat 31, the address of the GCV. The CD'ers offered here 25,- by signature.
Of five people is more likely that they have signed out of political motivation for the party. The deleted candidate Overdorp draws, and his wife S.C.M. Overdorp van-wide Nijmegen supports, Like last year, the party. She also was in the early eighties with the CP. C.C. Dear from Tiel was in the seventies, a sympathizer of the fascist Flemish organization Were-Di (You Weert) and two other CD steuners put it before a signature.
The remaining fourteen steuners Nijmegen are largely unknown. In total, the party got the number right here what they needed at least, So thirty.
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